The Boys in White; The Experience of a Hospital Agent in and Around Washington
by Julia S. Wheelock
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Lange & Hillman, 1870. Purple cloth, gilt spine title, gilt cover illustration. beveled edges, blind covers border, chocolate pastedown/endpapers, & tissued frontis portrait of the Author; A good textblock with bite off corner last 2 leaves & in a fair binding (sunned spine & .5"x.5" loss of cloth at head of spine) with bookplate inside front cover of Capt. J. J. Brice, U.S. Navy, 1898; 274 pages. Size: 4.75"x7.25". Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- White Raven Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JG10706
- Title
- The Boys in White; The Experience of a Hospital Agent in and Around Washington
- Author
- Julia S. Wheelock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Lange & Hillman
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1870
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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- Spine
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- Fair
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- Edges
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- Leaves
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- Beveled
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